Business Problem(s) SecureGURU Addresses:

• Businesses are unable to effectively communicate (and rack viewing) security threats or attacks (online or physical) when they are attacked and their email server is shutdown. 
• The cost, time and complexity of Security Awareness/Security Education increases as businesses have offices regionally and globally.
• The internal threats & damage far exceed the threats/damage from outsiders.

Introduction to SecureGURU^TM

SecureGURU^TM helps enterprises effectively communicate important security alerts (online or physical) with employee's worldwide and reduce the liability of the enterprise, while fully complying with laws. In addition to the technology to communicate, track and prioritize security content, FootPath provides security training content in the form of Flash presentations, screen savers, Intranet servers, posters & flyers. FootPath�s interactive content team constantly develops new content and provides it bundled with SecureGURU^TM product.

SecureGURU helps solve the following business problems faced by a CIO or CSO in autonomous and cost-effective ways:

• Educating Employees about all types of threats - Information, Social, Weapon Oriented; Identification of a threat, defense against threats and reporting procedures.
• Tracking Awareness Level of the Enterprise. Are more than 50% of the employees educated to identify and handle a Virus Attack?
• Communicating "Urgent Threat Alert" to all Employees and instantly evaluating employees who have not read/acknowledged the alert. This helps too reduce enterprise liability.
• Dynamic update of Security Awareness Content
• Four levels of content organized to spread security awareness across all levels of an Enterprise.
• Monitoring & Protecting the Desktop PC�s against Internal attacks

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Internal Attacks Are Mostly Unknown & Increasing Periodically

Cyber crime and physical crime from external and internal sources is increasing everyday having potential to cause massive damage, financially and potentially to human life. The threats range from simple thefts to bio terror attacks and they can change every day. The problem is compounded in enterprises where employee turnover is high and security awareness programs are static and expensive to implement, monitor and measure. 45% of all security breaches occur from within a company. Damage or threats to a company�s resources from internal forces are considered to be more serious and dangerous than those posed by external forces. In today�s business arena reports of such attacks are growing day by day, despite astronomical investments made by companies on security to safeguard business assets, due to lack of security awareness amongst employees.

"Federal investigators say that the tools and gears of security equipment are not as effective in the absence of appropriate and continuous employee training on potential threats"

Security Awareness content must be dynamic. The themes should be based on specific threats, severity of the threats, enterprise-specific vulnerability, enterprise physical location, and enterprise business vertical. Security awareness program must also be able to track the awareness level of all employees and have the capability to identify, report and defend against any known attacks on an enterprise.

Security and ROI (Return On Investment)

Information and enterprise security are important components of most corporate balance sheets today. Good understanding of your current business scenario and how employees would benefit from security awareness should precede an investment in security solutions.

To generate an ROI on Security solutions, the following issues need to be addressed:

• What is the company�s �Current Security Level�? How knowledgeable is the company staff about Security?
• What is the most effective method of education the employees? Would it be a dedicated workshop session or would it be an autonomous, on the job training?
• How compliant are the Security solutions to the current Laws?
• Is the Security solution measurable in terms of increased awareness of the employees?
• Finally, how cost-effective is the solution and what would be the Effectiveness/Investment ratio?

SecureGURU^TM Security Education Content

With the Government stepping up its emphasis on Information Security and Privacy standards with recent U.S Legislation acts such as Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1998, Footpath�s SecureGURU^TM  solution aims to proactively educate employees to improve enterprise threat and security awareness with the education themes in compliance with these regulations.

SecureGURU Security Education Content is available in the following areas:

• Identity Theft
• Information Theft
• Privacy Protection
• Desktop Security
• Virus & Worms Education
• Social Attacks & Defense
• Bio-terror Defense Education
• Work Place Theft Prevention Education
• PDA/Laptop Security
• Wireless Security
• HIPAA (scheduled 02/2003 )

SecureGURU^TM Desktop Security and Breach Notification

One of the key issues addressed by SecureGURU^TM is Desktop Security. The SecureGURU^TM Desktop Monitor automatically monitors the locked workstation. On detection of an unauthorized login, the SecureGURU^TM Breach Notification System automatically notifies the owner of the workstation over a pre-configured email address or a mobile phone. SecureGURU^TM Breach Notification System can be configured to channel Breach Notification messages through the corporate SMTP server on the company Intranet or a dedicated third-party SMTP server.

In addition to the Breach Notification System, the Desktop Monitor also features:

• Capture and logging Breach information to dedicated log files
• Automatic and configurable facility to Backup log files on the local computer or over the Intranet
• Automatic Event Log Backup, Clearing and Notification system
• Automatic Live Update Scheduling

Features of SecureGURU^TM

• Security Education Themes based on Threat types (Information, Identity etc) and Business Verticals Financial Services, DoD, Utilities etc.)
• Dynamic and Authentic Content updated periodically by Content Specialists On Demand or Automatic Content Update or No Update at all
• Breach Detection - Protects your system while you are away. Detection includes Login and optionally files system mounting or access to confidential folders.
• Breach Notification - Notifies you via Email immediately incase the system is breached by a malicious user in your absence. Can enforce dual security if desired. Maintains a log file of security breaches, which can be used, for auditing.

Advantages of SecureGURU^TM Architecture

SecureGURU^TM architecture has been designed keeping in mind, all issues pertaining to the MIS department, network resources and most frequently used features such as:

• Minimal use of Internet bandwidth to download/view the lightweight, Security Education Content .The content is downloaded only once or whenever updated.
• Reduced or no Intranet traffic as offline security education themes are played from each client machine.
• Lesser Connection time as the Offline communication system (SecureGURU^TM Screen Saver and SecureGURU^TMAdvisor) dispenses with constant connection to the Internet.
• Least CPU utilization enabling it to work on computers with minimal hardware resources
• SecureGURU^TM Screen Savers make effective usage of by playing security education content thereby creating a security aware environment.
• Scheduled delivery of Security content through SecureGURU^TM Live Update
• Offline tracking no load on network resources

SecureGURU^TM 3.0 is available FREE for Home users. Enterprise/Businesses can buy it online or request a volume quote. To know more about SecureGURU^TM, and Security Awareness please read our Technical White Paper.

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